Personally I'm pretty happy with Galleon which is always running on my box so I'd never bothered to try the music in pyTivo. Tried it just now though, works fine for me. I'm running Linux also Windracer. May as well say I know nothing about Python but hey this is the internet where lack of knowledge is no reason to refrain from spouting off an opinion -- to me it looks like even though you have zlib on your system your Python doesn't have support for zlib.

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I've recently played around with Tivo.Net and pyTivo. I love them both. I do like the simplicity of pyTivo, but I like the added configuration allowed with Tivo.Net.

One example, I like being able to set the quality of the video. Although I'm no expert and it's hard for me to tell sometimes, I believe the quality of the video stream is higher with Tivo.Net (when using the higher quality video settings).

4096 kbps for video + 192 kbps for audio. And I believe it would be very easy to make this configurable via pyTivo.conf .

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Sorry everyone I have been swamped with work the past few days, and it doesn't look like it is going to get much better. I will be out of town from th 29th to the 9th so I will be absolutely no help.

But in the mean time, I never got to it, but inthewoods made a bunch of mods that I never got to check out. But included in it was the ability to change bitrate settings and width settings. Everything looked pretty good to me but like I said I had little chance to tinker with it. Armooo check it out in his post here it should save you some time.

In the mean time again I apologize for sneaking away for a few days, but hopefully when I get back I can kick in some more time for new features.

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4096 kbps for video + 192 kbps for audio. And I believe it would be very easy to make this configurable via pyTivo.conf .

This is higher quality than most things I'd be transferring from my PC, so I just edited this number in the file "transcode.ty" (to 1024), and now I'm getting smaller (and faster) transfers. I particularly like the speed to be such that I can watch it as I transfer.

I don't know if this is related however, but my Tivo warns me that it might have to delete a number of recordings early or not be able to record things if I transfer a video now. I only just started with pyTivo a week ago, so I don't know if this is because I changed the bitrate, or because of the video I happen to be transferring.

Next question: I have an external, Network attached hard drive. It is a bit slow, but I can use Videora to transcode a video that is sitting on that drive (and the transcoding takes less time than the length of the video), so it is fast enough for that. However, if I try to make my Video directory for pyTivo some directory on that hard drive, I get the message in the Now Playing list that it couldn't create the list due to an error. (Can't remember exact message, but it isn't descriptive)

Note that I've never had success using this network drive for my "My Tivo Recordings" directory either.

If you are outputting to a 4:3 tv some tivos are know to not be a be able to correctly play back 16:9 encoded files to 4:3 TVs. Right now tivos with TSNs starting with '540', '649' are known not to work. If you set aspect169=false for your tivo and it starts to work report the first 3 digits of your TSN and I will add it to the default blacklist.

If you are using a 16:9 tv make sure to have the tivo set to output 16:9.

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Next question: I have an external, Network attached hard drive. It is a bit slow, but I can use Videora to transcode a video that is sitting on that drive (and the transcoding takes less time than the length of the video), so it is fast enough for that. However, if I try to make my Video directory for pyTivo some directory on that hard drive, I get the message in the Now Playing list that it couldn't create the list due to an error. (Can't remember exact message, but it isn't descriptive)

Note that I've never had success using this network drive for my "My Tivo Recordings" directory either.

I am having no problem using path=\\Steph\Desktop\Videos to access from a different pc. You may want to try mounting it to a drive letter. It may take a very long time if you have a lot of videos in one folder. So trying with just one video first may help.

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If you are outputting to a 4:3 tv some tivos are know to not be a be able to correctly play back 16:9 encoded files to 4:3 TVs. Right now tivos with TSNs starting with '540', '649' are known not to work. If you set aspect169=false for your tivo and it starts to work report the first 3 digits of your TSN and I will add it to the default blacklist.

If you are using a 16:9 tv make sure to have the tivo set to output 16:9.

I do have a 16:9 TV, and the Tivo is set to output 16:9. My TSN starts with 595. So I take you would say that should be working?

Could someone put together a guide for the dumb dummy no detail is too trivial, talk to me like I'm a retarded baby tutorial on how to install this pytivo thing?

Tivo.net has an installation issue even on a clean install of windows, so that's out.

For pytivo, I have installed python. It grabbed pywin32 or something automatically.

Now I have tivo desktop installed already.

In the configurater that pops up, I selected "My movies" and pointed it to c:/documents.......... all the way to my video folder

It installs

I fire up my tivo and there is nothing.

I have no idea if I should see something running in the system tray at the bottom right hand corner or what.

Thanks

I installed PyTivo for the first time this week. I've given up on Tivo.net for now because of lack of updates and too much fiddling with getting transfers to stay on my Tivo.

Kudos to the PyTivo installation program, pyTivo_XXX_setup.exe. It is a good place to start for non-technical users as it installs Python and pyTivo. I didn't even mess with the PyTivo.zip files. Configuration of PyTivo requires a bit more technical knowledge as it requires manually editing a configuration file.
The Wiki pages for windows installation helped a lot: http://pytivo.armooo.net/wiki/WindowsInstall.

Firewall settings also require tinkering but is required for both Tivo.net and PyTivo.

I just committed version 179. It adds the 16:9 blacklist while defaulting to use 16:9. It also has per tivo settings for aspect ratio. The per tivo config block will look like

##Per tivo options
# section named _tivo_TSN with the tsn in all caps
[_tivo_2400000DEADBEEF]

#If you want to use 16:9 or 4:3 on this tivo
aspect169=true

Maybe I'm reading more into this than is there in the code. Is this TSN section a generic blacklist section or is it referring to each of the Tivos that PyTivo sees? If it is the latter, it might be nice to have an enable/disable PyTivo flag so you can turn PyTivo on or off in a multiple Tivo household.

Next question: I have an external, Network attached hard drive. It is a bit slow, but I can use Videora to transcode a video that is sitting on that drive (and the transcoding takes less time than the length of the video), so it is fast enough for that. However, if I try to make my Video directory for pyTivo some directory on that hard drive, I get the message in the Now Playing list that it couldn't create the list due to an error. (Can't remember exact message, but it isn't descriptive)

Note that I've never had success using this network drive for my "My Tivo Recordings" directory either.
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I am having no problem using path=\\Steph\Desktop\Videos to access from a different pc. You may want to try mounting it to a drive letter. It may take a very long time if you have a lot of videos in one folder. So trying with just one video first may help.

I am having the same issue. I am using Windows XP and I get the same error when trying to use any mapped drive as a source for my videos. I did try to create a test directory with only one video in it that worked on a local drive to no avail. I tried using the mapped drive letter as well as trying to map directly to the \\server/share. I've tried it on 2 different mapped drives on 2 different computers.

I am having the same issue. I am using Windows XP and I get the same error when trying to use any mapped drive as a source for my videos. I did try to create a test directory with only one video in it that worked on a local drive to no avail. I tried using the mapped drive letter as well as trying to map directly to the \\server/share. I've tried it on 2 different mapped drives on 2 different computers.

Any help would be appreciated.

Otherwise... a very cool program! Thanks for your efforts!

The only other thing I can think of trying is adding '\\' to the end of your path. So you should try

path=\\server\share\\

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and many others..... I was unable to get any files with odd numbers in them to play. For example filename - 305 - morefilename and filename - 307 - morefilename would not encode. pyTivo would throw errors.

When I renamed 'Star Trek Voyager - 307 - Sacred Ground' to '3x7 Sacred Ground' the encoding kicked right in. Might there be an issue with having - ### - in filenames the the more recent releases? I didn't have this issue until i upgraded recently from the 16?? builds to 180/181.

and many others..... I was unable to get any files with odd numbers in them to play. For example filename - 305 - morefilename and filename - 307 - morefilename would not encode. pyTivo would throw errors.

When I renamed 'Star Trek Voyager - 307 - Sacred Ground' to '3x7 Sacred Ground' the encoding kicked right in. Might there be an issue with having - ### - in filenames the the more recent releases? I didn't have this issue until i upgraded recently from the 16?? builds to 180/181.

Thanks

what the heck?? That is bizarre. So what exactly did the errors say? What happens if you rename '3x7 Sacred Ground' back to 'Star Trek Voyager - 307 - Sacred Ground' and attempt to transfer it again, does it fail again?

and many others..... I was unable to get any files with odd numbers in them to play. For example filename - 305 - morefilename and filename - 307 - morefilename would not encode. pyTivo would throw errors.

When I renamed 'Star Trek Voyager - 307 - Sacred Ground' to '3x7 Sacred Ground' the encoding kicked right in. Might there be an issue with having - ### - in filenames the the more recent releases? I didn't have this issue until i upgraded recently from the 16?? builds to 180/181.

Thanks

Could you in include the error message, I tried to recreate this but had no luck.

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Interesting thread starter by Tobashadow on how to handle podcasts with pyTivo. Haven't tried it yet but if it works well we should ask his permission to paste his post into the Wiki.

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For a while I thought it was too good to be true -- I started the pyTivo transfer before the complete file had downloaded (just to see what would happen). It played OK! But only for part of the program. So I waited until the download completed then restarted the pyTivo transfer -- worked great!

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